Kelly TP #8

During this tutoring session with one of my CIES tutees, Daeyoung, we worked a little bit on one of her homework assignments. The assignment was basically to come up with different types of questions, such as “describe a time when” or “compare and contrast” or “what do you think about so and so.” These questions are going to be answered by a partner and they would present them in class.  Daeyoung pretty much came up with all of the questions, she just checked to make sure that they made sense, which they did.  We normally work in the library, but since Daeyoung forgot her student ID we worked outside, which was nice because it was glorious out.  However, we didn’t have access to a computer like we normally do, so for the last part of the session we basically just talked.  In one of our last TEFL classes, Kyungah was talking about the Korean equivalent of the SAT and how seriously the parents and students took it, and so I was asking Daeyoung about it. She said that she knew of one girl who would get sleepy after eating dinner and wouldn’t be able to study, so as an alternative her mom gave her an IV filled with nutrients so she could avoid falling asleep. This blew my mind. Daeyoung said it was crazy to her and all of her friends as well. It was very humbling to see the comparison between the amount of preparation students in Korea undergo to take this test as opposed to the prep work I did for the SAT, which was non-existent.